The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.